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...year-old Toai spent 28 months in prison for refusing to serve on the Finance Committee of the National Liberation Front (NLF), the South Vietnamese revolutionary group that helped overthrow former President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hieu, a former Buddhist monk, was forced to renounce Buddhism by the Vietnamese Communist leaders in 1975. He joined the political opposition to the government, and was arrested in 1976 as part of a mass roundup of former religious leaders...
...refugees who have fled Viet Nam since the fall of the Thieu government in 1975 have also cut into the country's human resources. According to officials in Thailand and Hong Kong, where many of the refugees arrive, Vietnamese officials are privately profiting from the exodus of their citizens who are seeking food and freedom abroad. After interviewing refugees, investigators believe that as much as 50% of the money would-be refugees pay to leave Viet Nam ends up in the pockets of local Communists...
...President from F.D.R. to Jimmy Carter. In the ambassador's own living quarters, there hangs a lacquered painting of a peaceful Vietnamese peasant scene with a simple inscription: "To my friend Bill Sullivan." The signature is that of South Viet Nam's ex-President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...blame much of the debacle on the U.S., which gradually took command of the whole war effort and imposed its own training methods, tactics and supplies on South Viet Nam. The Vietnamese became so dependent on the U.S. that when President Nixon threatened a cutoff in U.S. aid if Thieu did not sign the Paris peace accords, Thieu could only give in. Ambassador Bui Diem provides a pathetic vignette of Thieu at San Clemente, where he sought assurance of U.S. help if Hanoi violated the accords. "You can count on us," Nixon said. Thieu was so relieved that he broke...
...that somehow, somewhere, somebody from my country has courage, a strong will and a chance to build up a new life here in America, where it is difficult to adapt to culture differences. It was a model, a hope for my people, and I am personally proud for the Thieu Bui family...